"You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die."

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Ethan Canin

#Alive Quotes #Dies Quotes

“No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.”
“It's so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up who.”
“That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.”
“It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.”
“Photons have neither morals nor visas.”
“And that's when he finally tells me his name is Ernest. I'm thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is so dull, and Hemingway? Who wants a Hemingway?”
“When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.”
“I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.”

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